What was the first 60's TV show to mention the Vietnam War?

http://www.youtube.com ^ | 7/1/2012

[Krankor]

You'll never get this. What 1960's TV show was the first to mention the Vietnam War? Nope, not Dick Van Dyke. Nope, not Laugh-In. Nope, not the Smothers Brothers. You'll never get it.

[quilterdebbie]

Andy Griffith?

[JoeDetweiler]

Just a guess....Dobie Gillis ?

[Nowhere Man]

“Twilight Zone?”

[Gay State Conservative]

Mr Ed? Green Acres? Gilligan’s Island?

[Nowhere Man]

My second guess, “Outer Limits?”

[acad1228]

Adam-12?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The Muensters.

[knarf]

The Brady Bunch

[Krankor]

Nope and nope. I’ll be stunned if someone gets this.

[Diggity]

Beverly hillbillies?

[GreenLanternCorps]

Huntley/Brinkley

[rbg81]

That was my guess: the Twilight Zone. Believe it was an episode with Jack Klugman (”In Praise of Pip”).

[mnehring]

Star Trek for the win.

[knarf]

The Brady Bunch or My Three Sons

[adorno]

I can’t be wrong: the TV news shows?

[musicman]

The Smothers Brothers??

[Nowhere Man]

I was also thinking of the episode where a man was going to be hanged and it became eternal night wherever there was a lot of hate and IIRC, they mentioned Vietnam.

[smokingfrog]

All in the Family?

Maybe that didn’t start till the ‘70s.

[Gay State Conservative]

I’ve got it...I remember now.The Honeymooners.Ralph once threatened to send Alice there.

[Nowhere Man]

I remember that episode of Star Trek too, “A Private Little War.”

[ThomasThomas]

A little before my time but I would guess Route 66.

[research99]

The Munsters episode with Leo Durocher, where Herman was trying out for baseball and hit the ball so hard it was suggested he be sent to Vietnam instead.

[BradyLS]

I'm going to guess (not even looking it up!) the NBC show "Julia."

[MCF]

Twlight Zone “In Praise of Pip”
I remember watching it first time around.

[adorno]

Well, you have a link to YouTube, showing a porky pig cartoon. Would that be it?

[cripplecreek]

The Addams Family or the Munsters?

Maybe Lost in space.

[txhurl]

Beverly Hillbillies was the first to mention weather manipulation ‘we’re going to drop silver iodide RIGHT INTO DAISY’S EYE!’

[smokingfrog]

The Flying Nun

[SMGFan]

does the youtube link have any association with this?

[I see my hands]

JMO, but the way to do this is to write the name of the show in white font and advise people to highlight when they want the answer.

[Nowhere Man]

“The Fugitive”

[Atlantan]

I think you have it—Route 66.

I googled “In Praise of Pip” and Route 66 is said to be the first TV show to mention the Viet Nam War.

“Pip” was the first show to have a scene of Viet Nam in it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Praise_of_Pip

[running_dog_lackey]

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

[txhurl]

The Munsters episode with Leo Durocher, where Herman was trying out for baseball and hit the ball so hard it was suggested he be sent to Vietnam instead.

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What he said.

[CrazyIvan]

My first thought also.

[Krankor]

Damn, that was fast. Click Although the Pip episode on Twilight Zone might have been first- if they actually mentioned Vietnam

[I see my hands]

My guess is:

77 Sunset Strip.

[rbg81]

That episode was called: “I am the night, color me black”.

My other guesses would be:

1. My Three Sons
2. Gomer Pyle
3. Lost in Space

[1_Rain_Drop]

Since Andy Griffith was already mentioned, how about

Mr Ed

[Clock King]

News? Walter Cronkite?

[1_Rain_Drop]

oops! I’m late to the party

[Aliska]

Mash or did that come much later after the movie? I think it was mostly about Korea anyway.

[Aliska]

Mash or did that come much later after the movie? I think it was mostly about Korea anyway.

[section9]

Route 66.

This hit me like a sack of potatoes while watching one of the old reruns back in the late Nineties.

It was the last show the Series, and one of the two guys, not Martin Milner’s character, the other guy, mentioned in a bar that he was being recruited by some general to go and work in the strategic hamlet program in Vietnam.

This was during the Kennedy years when there was still optimism about that war.

Best,

Chris

[GreenHornet]

It was an episode of the classic game show, “I’ve Got a Secret” when contestant John Kerry stumped the panel with his secret: “I served in Viet Nam.”

[FrdmLvr]

That was NOT a 60’s show.

[BIGLOOK]

Gomer Pyle, USMC

[nothingnew]

"This is stupid"?

FMCDH(BITS)

[research99]

A Munsters classic. Still funny today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGQwUS73pVg